Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1887-11-25

ike DTeeCe ana there WOULD DE contained
more than three times in one territory.
! What will be our population when we are
as thickly populated as these countries?
In view of the fact that everything is
progressing so rapidly and we are living in
a crisis of history we can well say with A.
| Cleveland Cosce:
eve are living, we are dwelling
In grand and awful time,
In an age on ages telling.
| To be living is sublime"
! To come into such an inheritance in
! wolves wonderful responsibility, and in it
/ we can see how highly God has honored us
in the way of products: In 1860 we fed So
/ 100000 people and sent abroad 2S3,000,0O0
/ bushels of grain and this is the product Of
/ not One-fifth of the tilIable land of our
! county.
! Take our condition personally, domesti
cally and socially, as regards personal
! liberty mot in the narrow whisky
! shense) no nation compares with US
! In no country does the freedom and
/ strength of domestic ties equal those OF
! ours. In civil matters, law and order eX-
! ist in this land as in no other. Other lands
| have larger standing armies and a larger
police force than are needed here, and the
/ indications, notwithstanding the scare OF
| anarchy, are most hopeful. In time OF
need God nerves the people to crush out
anarchy and establish law and order. In
! our own beloved state and city we rejoice
in the establishment OF law and order
/ These were never so firmly established in
/ Wichita as they are today. In fact, the
/ American people were never before so fully
I in sympathy with freedom, law and order
! While these things are true, other things
are also true for the life or well being
/ of a nation does not consist IN its posses
sions. Not the most favored nations in tho
! of t,N,.I- I-a 11gpd
/ past to accomplish great things From
/ Palestine very small country, have gone
out the vitalizing outstanding influences
Of the world. Not because we have SO
much of the world are we destined to be
the nation which will bless the world. But
other things being equal we have by these
/ things the advantage.
! thank God for the place which the
| kingdom of Christ has in this land.
The relative number of those that con-
TESS Christ is greatly in advance of what it
was 100 years or twenty years ago.
The ratio of these to our population is
! constantly increasing and this Is our chief
| ground or hope and cheer.
There are many things to be thankful
for today but the grandest thing before
which all other things sink into insigniti-
| canoe is that God so loved the world as TO
give his only begOtten son that whOsOever
believeth on him should have everlastlng
life"
Rev J. H. Parker led in the closing
prayer. Rev. ". I. Harper called on every
voice TO join in singing the National An
them My Country It's of Thee" to which
the great company, under the leadership
of Mr.. ImbOden, gave most hearty re-
Spouse, These interesting services were
closed with the benediction by Rev. j. ID.
| BoUkln.
WEST SIDE SERVICES,
The services held yesterday at the Dodge
Avenue VI. +. church were the first union
services ever held on the west side on
Thanksgiving day The speaker on
the occasion. the Rev. Z. !. Brown, took
for his text Blessed be the Lord who daily
loadeth us with benefits. Psalm 6S-l9.
The reverend gentleman said:
The revolving year has brought Us TO an
other Thanksgiving day. This day. around
which so many sweet and sacred memories
cluster is q legacy from the piOus founders
Of our institutions. Far distant be the
day when degenerate sons OF worthy sires
shall turn their backs upon this day, now
. fixed in the customs of our country. Perish
/ the thought of such national ingratitude
as would gather in the harvests from our
broad domain without a public national
I recognition of Him who is the Lord of the
/ harvest. Today as a nation let Us humbly
! and gratefully ascribe the authorship Of
/ our daily blessings to the Lord our God.
Let the language of inspired gratitude be
ours: Thou vlsitest the earth, and WatereSt
it; Thou greatly enrichest it with the river
Of God, which is full OF water; Thou pro
widest them corn, when Thou hast so pro
vided for it"
Thou waterest the ridges thereof abund-
antly; Thou settlest the furrow thereof;
Thou makest it soft with showers; Thou
blessest the sDringing thereof"
| have no new theme today, and
in all sincerity | believe l can say, ! want
none This is Thaksgiving day and it is
those things which the year has brought TO
Us that call for gratitude which should be
remembered TO-DAY.
Our glance today is backward at the gifts
and forward and upward at the Giver If
today do not speak of great things in the
ordinary meaning of that term, but rather
of small things; il | speak even of common
things and homely things | trust that In
have much to be thankful for
/ Suppose we follow man who IS fairly
/ representative of our community, IN
/ average circumstances. through day OF
/ mis- experience: let us follow him from his
/ first waking moments till he seeks repOSe
/ ut night, and note if we can, his
DAILY BLESSINGS,
the blessing Of sleep: waking implies sleep
/ ing. How great a blessing is sleep. Sleep,
! that knts up the travelled slave of care,
/ the death OF each days life, sore labour s
bath, balm Of hurt minds, great nature 5
| second course, chief nOurisher in life ;
/ feast" How great has been this blessing
! indeed, All the long hours Of
/ the night have passed away
! as a hands breadth.
Our representative man slept, and we
| have slept, Nearly all the many nights
/ since last Thanksgiving day we have slept,
and Soundly slept. Thank God for sleep.
/ On this Thanksgiving day let us say than
! God for nightly sleep and daily waking. |
am not forgetful that some nights have
/ beent in sleepleSsneSS, but compared with
/ these how many the nights Of which we
! can say thank God for sleep. thank God for
/ sleep,
Not only the sleep itself. but the circum-
/ stances in which it was enjoyed are to be
reckoned among the daily blessings of our
! representative men. Let these things en-
/ gage his waking thoughts. His sleep has
not been upon the field Of battle with the
| deadly weapoS of warfare lying by his side.
! No martial reville wakes him from his
/ slumbers No sudden attack OF the enemy
/ pluuges him at once into the midst OF
/ deadly conflict. He awa6es at home amid
peaceful surroundings. No sound reaches
! his ear more alarming than the Growing
/ OF chanticleer as he greets the morning :
/ dawn.
H-has not slept by the wayside on the
! commons. nor in the forest. with no roof
/ above him but heavens star spangled
/ canopy no pillow but the turf and 10
/ covering bat the mantle OF night He
awakes where he has slept. beneath the
roof and between the walls Of his home.
/ That home of our representative man. our
! average citizen, ! not a palace. Il j not
even luxurious. II Is plain, but comfort
! able. Is it not In comfort then he has
slept
i
/ ing. food and drink As our representative
! man The citizen N ayer.Ee Circumstances